City To Pay Flood Trash Pickup Bill

LOCKPORT — Officials have decided to pay an unexpected bill received from the city's former waste hauler after July's floods.

For more than a month, aldermen had been debating whether to pay a $16,558 bill from Crown Disposal for extra waste pickups and trash receptacle use after last summer's record rains.

The bill was sent two weeks after the city chose not to renew the company's contract.

City officials met with company representatives within two days of the July 17 downpour and said they were told Crown Disposal would do everything it could to help out. Aldermen say they thought that meant the work was being done as a favor.

"When they came to us, we all took it that this was a goodwill gesture to the city," Ald. Dev Trivedi said. "Then they sock us with a bill."